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Escape Artist

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"Who would have thought that, of all the real-life characters to have a second life as detectives, Edna Ferber, now largely forgotten as a writer, would emerge as one of the best?" —Booklist STARRED review

In 1904, Edna Ferber is a 19-year-old girl reporter for the Appleton, Wisconsin, Crescent, an occupation her family considers scandalous for a proper young girl. By chance, she interviews Harry Houdini, in town visiting old friends. When beautiful young Frana Lempke disappears and is soon discovered murdered, the crime baffles the local police; Frana disappeared from a locked room at the high school. Edna asks Houdini for help in solving the murder. But as Edna pursues the story, she senses that she is being followed.

Though she is dedicated to her blind father, Edna's homelife is in disorder. And now the newsroom has become a hostile environment, with a new city editor determined to undermine her....


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Series: Edna Ferber Mystery Publisher: Sourcebooks

Kindle Book

  • Release date: May 9, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781615952830
  • Release date: May 9, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781615952830
  • File size: 1207 KB
  • Release date: May 9, 2011

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  • ISBN: 9781615952830
  • File size: 1204 KB
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"Who would have thought that, of all the real-life characters to have a second life as detectives, Edna Ferber, now largely forgotten as a writer, would emerge as one of the best?" —Booklist STARRED review

In 1904, Edna Ferber is a 19-year-old girl reporter for the Appleton, Wisconsin, Crescent, an occupation her family considers scandalous for a proper young girl. By chance, she interviews Harry Houdini, in town visiting old friends. When beautiful young Frana Lempke disappears and is soon discovered murdered, the crime baffles the local police; Frana disappeared from a locked room at the high school. Edna asks Houdini for help in solving the murder. But as Edna pursues the story, she senses that she is being followed.

Though she is dedicated to her blind father, Edna's homelife is in disorder. And now the newsroom has become a hostile environment, with a new city editor determined to undermine her....


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    Publisher:
    Sourcebooks

    Kindle Book
    Release date: May 9, 2011

    OverDrive Read
    ISBN: 9781615952830
    Release date: May 9, 2011

    EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781615952830
    File size: 1207 KB
    Release date: May 9, 2011

    Open EPUB ebook
    ISBN: 9781615952830
    File size: 1204 KB
    Release date: May 9, 2011

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